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The cult of personality can take you far, but it can’t keep you there

by tqcincinnatus ( 120 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Election 2008, Polls at August 17th, 2009 - 8:51 pm

Some bitter clinger over at Renew America does the dirty on Pres_ent Obama

….Now, to the chagrin of the President and his Party, he is discovering why cults of personality are not truly reliable as a source of political power. It’s because, psychologically, frenzies of excitement cannot be maintained indefinitely. In the psychological gravity of personality politics, what goes up must come down. The superficial luster will wear away. Once a personality-dependent ruler starts having to actually make decisions that will affect peoples’ lives, he will invariably start to see support slip away. And when the ruler makes a string of monumentally bad decisions like Obama has, one after the other, packed tight like a can of sardines, the slippage will turn into freefall.

There will always be those who blindly cheer the President no matter what he does. However, a critical percentage of the population — the one that does things like decide elections — has awakened to what Obama really is. They’ve seen the lies, and they don’t like them one bit. They see the gathering clouds, the storm that threatens to deluge their freedoms and their family finances, and they’re revolting against it. It is no longer enough for them that Obama is “the first black President” or that he’s cool and hip. They want governance that will bring back prosperity and protect their freedoms, or at least that isn’t going to devastate them individually and as a nation. Yet, they’re getting exactly the opposite. Obama is finding out that popularity and coolness are no substitute for substance and gravitas and wisdom and statesmanship. It’s just a shame that this discovery came after he was able to scam his way into the White House….

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